The QC Board
QC is a Queensland state-wide non-profit, communities-based organisation that provides a full suite of programs, campaigns, advocacy and services that build the capacity of our peers; and that enhance the health and wellbeing of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer, Sistergirl and Brotherboy people and communities in Queensland by working through partnerships.
President
Melissa Fox - She/Hers
Melissa is the Chief Executive Officer of Queensland’s peak health consumer organisation Health Consumers Queensland. She has held governance positions in the film and television industry and health consumer organisations, for almost twenty years, including most recently a three year term on the board of Consumers Health Forum (Australia’s peak health consumer organisation). Her current appointments include the Queensland Clinical Senate and Chair of the Partnering with Consumers committee for the Australian Commission of Safety and Quality in Health Care. She is passionate about health and social services being co-designed with and for those they are intended. As a bisexual mother of two, she is particularly keen to strengthen cross-sector collaboration and support meaningful co-design of health and social services for bisexual, queer and lesbian people, queer parents and parents with transgender/gender questioning children.
Vice President & Central Region Member
Bernard Gardiner - He/Him
Bernard has a Masters in Health Promotion from the University of the Sunshine Coast, and has completed a PhD within the Living Positive in Queensland Study at the School of Public Health, University of Queensland. Over the last 30 years he has been involved in various aspects of the global response to HIV, including serving for 3 years as General Manager of the Victorian AIDS Council and Gay Men’s Health Centre. At the international level he worked throughout East and South-East Asia via Australian Red Cross, and for seven years was Global HIV Programme Manager of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies based in Geneva, Switzerland. From that position he also managed the UNAIDS Collaborating Centre on HIV-Related Stigma in partnership with the Global Network of PLHIV.
Board Treasurer & Northern Region Member
Janet Wilson - She/Hers
Bio to be updated
E: jwilson@qc.org.au
Secretary
Scott Cobine - He/Him
Bio to be updated
Southern Region Member
Lynnette Pirie - She/Hers
Bio to be updated
E: lpirie@qc.org.au
Board Member
Vickie Ogilvie - She/Hers
Bio to be updated
vogilvie@qc.org.au
Board Member
Billie Stimpson - They/Them
Bio to be updated
bstimpson@qc.org.au
Chief Executive Officer
Rebecca Reynolds - She/Hers
Bio to be updated